R20 vs Adelaide | Sat 7 Mar | NOW 5:00pm | Bellevue Gardens Hotel

Now with added Nix Legends game @4:20 pm.

Bling are playing Jests the day before so will probably be in 2nd place after that. 

Another 6 pointer.

Manny out suspended. Not sure if Fenton is back or not.

Anyone have a yellow card count?

We've picked up a few since the AC break so maybe others are on 3 or 4?

No reds for Victory this season? Surely thats some kind of a record for them ..

Are Weenix still playing a curtain raiser??

Just wondering about coming down from Palmy early

MetService...it could be any weather by then.

No the Phoenix Legends game is the curtain raiser.

So far the Legends team consists of:

Paston

Daniel

Ifill

There is nothing like Tim Brown

Ferrante

Even if Fenton was fit, I would keep Boxall at RB with Doyle coming in as he is a left sided player. Changing both fullbacks at the same time is asking for trouble.

Ok thanks for this sorry!! I thought I read somewhere they were curtain raising at 2pm. Ma bad!!

No need to be sorry.

Saturday's time table is like this:

2.00 pm WeeNix v Canterbury United, Petone Memorial Park

4.20 pm (Curtainraiser) Phoenix Legends vs. TBC - Hutt Wreck

7.00 pm Nix vs. Adelaide, Hutt Wreck

I would get off the train early to watch the Weenix but unfortunately the matchday tranz metro ticket doesnt work like that

I am thinking of going to the Weenix game. That will mean I have 3 seats from Petone Memorial to Hutt Wreck available.

I will be driving from Khandallah too so could pick up people from Wellington Train Station or near vacinity and or Petone/Woburn train stations too.

From: http://int.soccerway.com/teams/new-zealand/welling...

Siggie, Roly and Rodirguez all on 4 yellows, Louis on 3

It's ~20min walk to the Bellevue. You can get off at Ava, watch the Wee Nix, walk over to the Hutt Rec afterwards.

Map

Good time to use it then..tactically speaking.

I move that Manny (suspended from the Adelaide game) has to play for the Nix Legends in the curtainraiser!

He is a legend, and surely he can play in an exhibition game (unless the suspension is "from all forms of football")

Guessing he'll be in Melbourne for the duration

hard to fathom how WSW have the 4th least amount of cards. 3 reds mind you.

I think there is a 50 shades of grey screening during the legends game unfortunately. 

Oh right. Yeah ive only taken the train to the Hutt from town once so didnt realise how close it was.

2 less games though.

Farken hell, why couldn't the breakers be playing on Saturday at 7pm instead of on Sunday, no piney on this game.    Oh well COYN!!!

You could just get a $14 Day rover ticket and rides the trains as much as you want for the day.

This Saturday night’s Round 20 Hyundai A-League match at Brendan Foot Supersite Hutt Rec will now kick off at 5pm.

Football Federation Australia has announced a change to the kick off time for Saturday night’s Round 20 Hyundai A-League match between Wellington Phoenix v Adelaide United at Hutt City’s Hutt Recreation Ground.

The match, due to kick off at 7pm (local time), will now kick off at 5pm, which is 3pm (AEDT) and 2.30pm (Adelaide time).

The decision was taken after lighting standards at the temporary stadium, a replacement for Westpac Stadium which was unavailable due to the cricket world cup, did not meet the stipulated standards agreed with FFA in approving the venue.

"The Hutt Recreation Ground cannot provide adequate lighting to allow the match to be played at 7pm, which was a precondition of FFA's approval of the venue to host matches at this time,” said Head of the Hyundai A-League Damien de Bohun.

“Despite numerous options being investigated over many weeks by Wellington Phoenix, the available lighting will not meet the required standards for a Hyundai A-League match at night, so it must proceed in daylight.

“This is not a decision we have taken lightly and it is regrettable that we have had to change the kick off time in the week of the match as this may cause inconvenience to fans, but we were left with no alternative”.

Curtain raiser?

2:20pm

Pretty embarrassing really. Should have been sorted months ago.

Ta!

Email from the club just in now.

#shambles

Why the hell wasn't this sorted weeks ago? This is terrible stuff.

How many cranes can fit on the corners of the field? Not enough lights to hang?

going to struggle to get there for the legends match now, both my mate and i have to work saturday morning so cannot leave till about 1pm, on the up side though we will get home a lot earlier than we thought we would.

Lighting technology is very very complicated just ask the 18th century - and to put lights up in the air....mate you are dreaming